An edition of Left Bank (2018)

Left Bank

art, passion, and the rebirth of Paris, 1940-50

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Agnès Poirier, Agnès Poirier
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An edition of Left Bank (2018)

Left Bank

art, passion, and the rebirth of Paris, 1940-50

First edition.
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"An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris"--Amazon.com.

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English
Pages
331

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Left Bank
Sep 17, 2019, Picador Paper
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Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
2019, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
Cover of: Left Bank
Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
2018, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
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Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950
2018, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
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Left Bank: art, passion, and the rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
2018, Henry Holt and Company
in English - First edition.
Cover of: Left Bank
Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
2018, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
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Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
2018, Holt & Company, Henry
in English

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Table of Contents

I. War was my master
The fall
The choice
The fight
The desire
II. Modern times
A philosophy of existence
Lust and emancipation
A third way
III. The ambiguities of action
How not to be a communist?
Love, style, drugs, and loneliness
Action and dissidence
"Paris's gloom is a powerful astringent"
IV. Sharpening the senses
"They owned art while we were just full of dollars"
Stimulating the nerves
Anger, spite, and failure
Vindicated
Farewells and a new dawn.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-313) and index.

Copyright Date
2018

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
944/.361
Library of Congress
DC752.R52 P65 2018, DC752.R52P65 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
331

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26945518M
ISBN 10
1627790241
ISBN 13
9781627790246
LCCN
2017023902
OCLC/WorldCat
982538506

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Work ID
OL19732422W

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